Tuesday, September 9, 2008

I had a cackling good time with this witch from the new Happy Halloweenie kit at Paper Garden Projects. She's so wicked cute that she doesn't even need colour & that little cat in her lap is cute-overload. The black colouring makes this project as speedy as a witch's broomstick. (Click photos for a look so close that it's scaaaary!) ;O)

Cut circle for witch from Pixie Sticks (large dots) or Wicked Whimsy (small dots) (3 7/8 inches in diameter.) You can cut the circlebefore or after stamping because the stamps are on EZ mount & they're registered. This means you can see exact placement through an acrylic block.

Colour the entire thing in with a black marker or black ink. Repeating layers of black will give you shadows, but this is such a perfect stamp for a silhouette that you can just colour it black and have done! :o)

Step 4. Most of the sweet little images on this great green paper are embossed, so it's nice to use them as embellishments.

Before mounting the patterned paper you can punch a 1 inch circle out of the top of the Wicked Whimsy (green) patterned paper (Note: Make sure the punch spot will be hidden by your large witch image circle.)

Step 5. Layer the papers (adding the top piece first & then overlapping with the bottom green patterned piece. Stitch the sides.

Step 3. Cut a slit along the bottom vertical score lines (from the bottom of the long edge) up to the 3/4 inch horizontal score line. Cut away the smallest bottom section and discard it. (marked in red above.)

Step 4. Adhere the side & bottom to close the box

Step 5.Add the front decoration (which was made the same way as the cards above--just 1 inch shorter.) Stick it on with Oh so sticky tape.

This Witch Hazel is so sweet that you can add her without any colouring to make the world's fastest matching envelopes. Did I mention that these stamps are perfectly registered on the EZ mount, which means you can stamp your images exactly where you want them? (I'm a woman obsessed heeheehee.) [These envelopes are shimmery and I've done embossing, but you could also use waterproof ink. Here's the whole thing put together:

Hello there,This is so enabling.. links right to the store. I went on a collecting spree for copics and went to check out but shipping was $17 to Canada. Ouch... I'm considering yet. Love the witch!! If my kids were younger... this would be purchased but I'm not sure I'd make halloween cards at this point in my life. I do love them though. The puppet stage rocks and so does the hag bag. You always give me a morning chuckle!! Beth Greco

Oooh, such a fun Halloween bag! I love it! You make such cool stuff, Mel. I wish I had your energy! The set is such a fabulous Halloween gift to give out! Thank you for sharing your creativity. I'm wow'd everytime I stop by!

Keep them comming. . .I'm having so fun looking at all your cool Halloween projects!!

Once again, I learned something new! It would never have occurred to me to color in the image all black to make a silhouette image! I love this! Good tip on cutting out what's going to be covered up too!